"We have to be able to handle that pressure better than we are now," CU head coach Tad Boyle said. "(CU's) eight assists and 18 turnovers doesn't cut it, no matter who you're playing. If you're playing a team like Kansas in a building like this, your mistakes get magnified."

Series update

KU leads 123-39, including a 62-7 edge in Lawrence.

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CU's last road win in the series was a 75-74 victory on Feb. 10, 1983, at Allen Fieldhouse when Boyle was a sophomore at KU.

Dating back to the 2003-04 season, the Jayhawks have won 19 consecutive games against the Buffs.

Boyle is 0-4 against his alma mater. During CU's final season in the Big 12 (2010-11), KU swept the regular-season meetings and beat the Buffs in the semifinals of the conference tournament at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Mo.

Notable

Alec Burks' father, Steve, attended Saturday's game. His son, a second-year guard on the Utah Jazz from nearby Grendview, Mo., would have been a senior at CU had he not left school early for the NBA. ... The 54 points were the fewest for CU since beating Utah 53-41 in the opening round of the Pac-12 Tournament in March. The Buffs also had their lowest field-goal percentage (37 percent) since shooting 34.9 percent against the Utes. ... The Buffs fell to 3-9 all-time in games broadcast on ESPN2.

Quotable

"That was an old-fashioned (butt) whooping right there. That's what that was. There's no other way to put it," Boyle said. "No excuses, Kansas just came out and manhandled us from start to finish. There was nothing we could do about it."

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